Supply Chain involves moving a product or a service from supplier to customer and involves activities like sourcing, procurement, conversion and logistics. Logistics deals with the management of flow of goods and services between point of origin and point of consumption. Logistics is subset of Supply chain and depends largely on Transportation of goods and products within targets. Because of asset intensiveness transportation is often outsourced to Transportation Service Providers (TSPs). Often TSPs act as LSPs Logistics service providers by providing assistance in whole operation.

Today in the world of data driven businesses and need for access to right information in right time logistics and transportation industries need query and reporting solutions to access critical business information for strategic decision making.

Business drivers in transportation include:

Increasing competitiveness in market

Unpredictable market trends

Cost cutting

Need for granular visibility into dollar spending

Trends in cost and performance

Root cause analysis

‘What if’ scenarios for resources

Few of the areas that BI can impact in Logistics and transportation industry are: